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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisMarch 23, 2015
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Internet and New MediaDecember 4, 2013
The Promise—and Threat—of the Internet
Who will rule our virtual world—government data miners and the corporations in step with them, or everyone else?
E.L. Doctorow
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CultureFebruary 7, 2012
Reading John Leonard: A Tribute
For the critic John Leonard, “books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves.”
E.L. Doctorow
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Cultural Criticism and AnalysisAugust 12, 2010
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PhilosophyJune 26, 2008
George W. Bush and the Politics of Knowledge Denial
Just as Moby-Dick was too much for Ahab, our new century may be too difficult for us to comprehend.
E.L. Doctorow
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ReligionMay 8, 2003
Why We Are Infidels
Fundamentalists are offended when there is no officially sanctioned path to salvation.
E.L. Doctorow
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Autobiography and MemoirMay 1, 2003
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Campaign FinanceJuly 27, 2000
In the Eighth Circle of Thieves
The power and sovereignty of corporations is an enormous humiliation to a society of free people.
E.L. Doctorow
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Accidents and DisastersAugust 14, 1995
Mythologizing the Bomb
The beauty of the atomic scientists’ calculations hid from them the truly Faustian contract they scratched their names to.
E.L. Doctorow
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Political FiguresJuly 19, 1980